422 
Hedges and Enclosures of Devonshire. 
take 78J acres in one part of the parish, we find 6 miles of hedge, 
occupying between 9 and 10 acres ; being 12 per cent., or ] 
inSf 
In the parish of Rewe, containing 1341 acres, there are 65 
miles of hedge, occupying 104 acres ; being 7| per cent., or 1 in 
12^' . There are 56 between three and four acres ; being 207, 
or 64 in every 100 fields under 4 acres; 8 of 10 acres and up- 
wards; being 324 in all: and 1 field larger than 10 acres in 
every 40 fields, or 1 70 acres. If we take a separate portion of 
the parish, containing 81 acres, we find 5g miles of hedge, occu- 
pying 9 acres, being one-ninth. This part of the parish is rented 
at 40s. per acre, and the outgoings are from 12^. to 1 5s. more ; so 
that there is an annual loss of, at least, 23/. on these 8 J acres. 
In the parish of Poltimore, containing 1710 acres, there are 
59 miles of hedge, occupying 94 acres ; being 5g per cent., 
or 1 acre in 18. There are 168, or 56 in every 100 fields, 
under 4 acres; 259 under 10 acres; 38 of 10 acres and up- 
wards; being 297 in all; and 1 field larger than 10 acres in 
every 8 fields, or 45 acres. The park and roads in this parish 
amount to 140 acres. In a part of the parish, containing 115 
acres, the hedges occupy 10^ per cent. : in another part contain- 
ing 280 acres, they amount to 6 per cent. ; but in another, con- 
taining 327 acres, they are only 2^ per cent. Before the appor- 
tionment of this parish was made, five years ago, Lord Poltimore's 
steward took down on a farm of less than 200 acres 8 miles of 
hedge, and thereby added 15 acres to the productive portion of 
the estate. Since that time there have been removed in the 
parish 6J miles of hedge, saving about 10 acres; so that there 
have been taken down in the last five years, besides what were 
taken down before, on Lord Poltimore's properly in the parishes of 
Huxham and Poltimore, 10 miles of hedge, and from 15 to 16 
acres gained : as much as would be an allotment of a third of an 
acre to each of about 50 labourers. On account of these altera- 
tions the number of enclosures of 3, 4, and 5 acres would be 
much fewer, and those of a larger size greater, than is given in 
the Table. Whilst in the parish of Rewe, cimtaining 1341 
acres, there are 65 miles of hedge : in Poltimore, which is nearly 
a half larger, there are only 59; and if we deduct the since 
taken down, only 52^ miles. It will also be perceived that this, 
containing 1710 acres, contrasts favourably with the other parishes, 
having about as many enclosures above 10 acres as are in the five 
parishes of St. George's Clyst, Rewe, Clistliydon, Feniton, and 
Talaton, containing 8293 acres : also with the parishes of Silver- 
ton and Broadc'.yst, having two- thirds as many enclosures above 
10 acres as the latter parish, which is 9188 acres. 
In the parish of Clistliydon, containing 1725 acres, there are 
